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Month: March 2006

  • Kubrick/Be@rbrick Article on PingMag

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    My first article for PingMag, covering the Kubrick/Be@rbrick line of figures, is now up. I also made a photoset on Flickr with the complete set of pictures I took at the ANDTOY shop for the article (40 in all). And if you want to hear more about Nakano Broadway, the second episode of my Tokyo…

  • This Week in Magazines

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    The new issue of RELAX (110) sets us up on a “Meeting with Asian Beauty Masters,” which translates to a look at various Asian health practices — think yoga, kung-fu, and kampo. They also point out places in Japan where you can take classes. I liked the “Suits Style Sampling” piece, which is basically a…

  • Comic Coffee Review

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    The Canned Coffee site does something a bit different this week with their latest coffee review (I did one last week). They’ve invited Enrico Casarosa, a storyboard artist at Pixar, to contribute a review in comic form, one new page up every day of the week. Part 1 is here.

  • New Packaging

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    The Snapazoo has updated its packaging, again designed by NCM. The instructions are much clearer now.

  • Architexture

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    I dropped by the hhstyle.com store in Harajuku yesterday, and happened on this exhibition for a product called Architexture (until March 6). It’s a collection of furoshiki by famous designers/architects (Kengo Kuma, Jun Aoki, Kazuyo Sejima, Hiroshi Naito, Takaharu + Yui Tezuka).

  • Japanese Signage Revisited

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    Following PingMag’s recent article on Japanese font signage (although that piece looked at handwritten fonts), Momus’ latest article for AIGA, “How Was It for You,” examines Japanese store signage as well, with a “he said, she said” approach.

  • FFXII Potion

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    I love this new TV commercial for Suntory’s FFXII Potion drink, released in conjunction with the new game Final Fantasy game. Brilliant. Link via Kotaku.

  • Prensenting at PechaKucha

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    PingMag’s Jon Cockle shares his experience of presenting at last Thursday’s edition of PechaKucha (Vol. 30) at SuperDeluxe, and offers up some tips to future presenters!

  • Tokyo Boy 02

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    The second episode of my Tokyo Boy podcast is now up. It was recorded yesterday at Nakano Broadway, as I was there to take some pictures to accompany my piece on Kubrick/Be@rbrick figures for PingMag (which will be online Monday I think). Again, the sound is sort of crappy, but I think it’s a bit…

  • This Week in Magazines

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    I was a bit surprised when I saw that the new issue of PEN (171) on the stands was square-bound, but since it covers fashion, I imagine it’s probably just for this issue — pretty much any Japanese magazine that does a fashion cover feature gets a higher page count, mostly because of ads. The…